Guest Blogger Guidelines

Our audio blog has over 7000 subscribers and attracts more than 25000 visits a month. If you have exceptional writing skills and would like to share your business knowledge and expertise with a large audience of marketers and business owners, consider becoming a guest blogger!

Successful guest blog articles are comprehensive, action-oriented, how-to style posts that teach our readers about a particular aspect of running a small business.

Post topics may include (but are not limited to): business tools and techniques, productivity techniques, SEO, social media marketing, email marketing, lead generation, recruitment focused posts and general online marketing. However, we also cover topics that will strive to help the small business owner, and this may be subjects such as staff retention, finance, operational advice, daily management problems and more.

Well-written and high-quality original article (we all know how Google hates duplicate content) related to the pain that a small business owner would experience.

An article that reflects the writing style/tone of the Green Umbrella blog (conversational)

Short, 1-2 sentence author bio including a maximum of 1 anchor text link to your own website. Plus links to all your social media sites. (We use a Gravatar for all author bios)

Proper attribution of data, quotations, and other third-party content referenced in the article.

No length requirements: posts should be as long as they need to be to be high quality and comprehensive. But to give you a guidance, we would not expect less than 800 words and no more than 2000.

Posts to be submitted in a MS Word document, along with an audio version in MP3 format (although we can produce the audio for you if you prefer)

Not-So-Fine Print:

Submissions must meet the Green Umbrella team's quality standards in order to get published.

Please avoid being self-promotional in the body of your article. Save that for your author bio.

We cannot allow you to republish your guest post to your own blog afterward (it's that whole duplicate content thing again), but you're more than welcome to link to it and share it like crazy.

The Green Umbrella team reserves the right to edit and adapt your guest blog content as we see fit.

All key guest bloggers will allocated dates throughout the year. Please submit your blog a minimum of three days before the published date.

If you are unable to meet the deadline then please inform GUHQ at least a week before the due date.

Unfortunately, if you miss more than 2 deadlines, then we will have no option but to remove your details from our guest blogging list.

Apply to become a guest blogger here

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Which content categories can you supply a blog for?*

Business tools and techniques

Social Media Marketing

Search Engine Optimisation

Online Marketing Techniques

Sales techniques

Productivity advice

Print and design advice

Website / Wordpress advice and tools

Please let us know what your area of expertise is. Are you able to write content for any of the categories below?